We love tragedies.

Yeah, happy endings are all nice and ruffly.  But I believe that there's a deeper emotion, a more gut-wrenching touch, involved with something sad and tragic.  We're actually both fans of ballad-y alternative songs.  Those by Coldplay, Travis, Keane, Aqualung and Death Cab for Cutie.  Somber, heart-warming tones and brilliant words.  There's the occasional trip-hop, but my braincells could only take up to a certain level of wiry energy.  There's something about hearing / reading about loss that actually gets me through the day better.

A Bad Dream, by Keane.  I wake up, it's a bad dream no one on my side.  I was fighting but I just feel too tired to be fighting.  Guess I'm not the fighting kind.  Wouldn't mind it if you were by my side.  But you're long gone, yeah you're long gone now.

Tiny Vessels, by Death Cab for Cutie.  This is the moment that you know.  That you told her that you loved her but you don't.  You touch her skin and then you think that she is beautiful but she don't mean a thing to me.  Yeah, she is beautiful but she don't mean a thing to me.

Clocks, by Coldplay.  Confusion never stops.  Closing walls and ticking clocks
Gonna come back and take you home.  I could not stop but you now know, singin'.  Come out upon my seas.  Curse missed opportunities.  Am I a part of the cure or am I part of the disease.

The Scientist, by Coldplay.  Come up to meet you, tell you I'm sorry.  You don't know how lovely you are.  I had to find you, tell you I need you, tell you I set you apart.  Nobody said it was easy, it's such a shame for us to part.  Nobody said it was easy,  No one ever said it would be this hard.  Oh take me back to the start.


So Chips and I have been together for like, eight years.  Debunked that 7-year itch thing, steadily managing our ironies and differences, loving how we balance each other off and meet with common passions.  It's ironic and yet strangely fitting that we were in a Cinemalomo short film entry about tragic love.  Since we do love tragedies, why not.  It's a rather cool tidbit, actually.  That we were the characters in a sad, depressing love story.  View the short flick here, by talented friends from Lomomanila, beautiful words by Marge Francia.